The learning activity can be as simple as reading a book, or doing a simple science experiment, or as involved as packing up the crew and visiting a museum or hiking your local park. It's as involved as you want it to be, and our focus is to help parents realize the important role they play in helping their kids avoid the summer learning slump.

And (here's the fun for you part!) we want to reward everyone who joins us in this Challenge by awarding prizes (super cool ones!) each week - woot!

We've worked hard to prepare a sample calendar of ideas, aimed at children K-3, with adaptations for preschoolers and upper-elementary aged students that can be downloaded, printed, and hung on your fridge. Our calendar is merely a list of themed suggestions to get you started - you are the expert on your own children and you know what they will find most engaging. Feel free to adapt and make changes to meet your own family's needs.

If you are a blogger, we would love for you to grab our "Smart Summer Challenge" Badge for your sidebar and/or Smart Summer Posts.

Grab the button from my side bar!

Step 3:

Each week, from June 27 through August 5, we will be posting daily activities on our three blogs.

We would love it if you would blog along (as often as you wish - even once a week is great) and share what you are doing to keep the learning going over the summer.

Step 4:

On Friday of each of the Smart Summer Challenge weeks, we will post a themed "linky" on our blogs where you can share your recent or archived posts. If you do not have a blog, please feel free to share your activities and pictures on the Smart Summer Challenge Facebook page! We will highlight posts from participants on our blogs and on facebook.

We hope you will visit and comment on each other's posts so we can all learn together.

Don't forget to check out the we teachSummertime Learning eBook from my awesome friend Amy, for even more cool summer learning ideas on Teach Mama'swe teach site - you can download the whole thing for free and it's filled with 30 great ideas to make summer learning fun!
You'll even find a fun art project from me in there!

Interested in what kind of prizes and schwagg we'll be giving away to some of our Smart Summer Challenge participants? Here are a few...

Thanks, button has been added and a link to your post and the Facebook page has also been added to my Summer Reading & Math Programs for Kids post http://blog.funandfreesouthflorida.com/2011/06/12/summer-reading--math-programs-for-kids.aspx

i'm in! i love this idea! my kids are 6, 4 and 2 and my daughter got out of school the very beginning of june and i keep thinking that we need to do more learning stuff but i just keep putting it off so this will be fun. my kids are doers. i love your ideas too!

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